A man who claimed £14,300 in housing benefit failed to disclose that he had more than £70,000 in a bank account.

Clwyd Williams from Ruthin had the money in his bank after the family home was sold when his marriage ended.

But the 60-year-old who has health problems and had been suffering from depression didn’t want anything to do with the money, Flintshire magistrates heard.

Phillip Lloyd Jones, defending, said it had been Williams’ intention to give it to his children as and when they wanted it but now appreciated that he should have set up a trust fund or simply given it to them.